U.S. Operations Research in World War II

Joseph F. McCloskey
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Joseph F. McCloskey: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, California

Operations Research, 1987, vol. 35, issue 6, 910-925

Abstract: This article, the third in a series on the early history of operations research, offers an overview of American military operations research during World War II. The first and second articles ( Operations Research 35 , pp. 143–152 and 453–470) traced the scattered beginnings of operations research from World War I through the British experience of World War II.

Keywords: 601; OR/MS; history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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